Why do we let these men sit in moral judgment of anyone on matters of race relations -- or anything else?

Sharpton never apologized for falsely accusing a former assistant district attorney in 1987 of sexually assaulting black teenager Tawana Brawley. A New York grand jury determined the whole Brawley affair a hoax, and the assistant DA successfully sued Sharpton and two other defendants for defamation. A unanimous, multiracial jury awarded the assistant DA $65,000 from Sharpton. No apology.

In 1989, after the "Central Park Jogger" was viciously attacked and left for dead, Sharpton called the jogger a "whore" and accused her boyfriend of committing the crime. No apology.

Jesse Jackson also criticized Imus. But in 1984, when the Washington Post's Milton Coleman reported Jesse Jackson called Jews "Hymies" and New York "Hymie-Town," the reverend initially denied the statement. Days later, Jackson apologized for his anti-Semitic remark, thus taking longer to apologize than did Imus for his racist, sexist remark. Jackson's friend and confidant, the Nation of Islam's Minister Louis Farrakhan -- publicly threatened black reporter Coleman on radio and warned the Jews, "If you harm this brother [Jackson], I warn you in the name of Allah this will be the last one you harm." Jackson refused to condemn Farrakhan's remarks.

Being a "civil rights leader" means never having to say you're sorry. And it also means you get a pass on viciously racist words and deeds that far surpass the misdeeds of Don Imus -- who deserved to be fired.

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Interesting. I thought they told us that they had no idea who he was, and that campus police had never had any dealings with him. Could Virginia Tech have been lying to us? Or were they merely incompetent?

Campus authorities were aware 17 months ago of the troubled mental state of the student who shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech on Monday, an imbalance graphically on display in vengeful videos and a manifesto he mailed to NBC News in the time between the two sets of shootings.

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The hostility in the videos was foreshadowed in 2005, when Mr. ChoÂ’s sullen and aggressive behavior culminated in an unsuccessful effort by the campus police to have him involuntarily committed to a mental institution in December.

For all the interventions by the police and faculty members, Mr. Cho was allowed to remain on campus and live with other students. There is no evidence that the police monitored him and no indication that the authorities or fellow students were aware of any incident that pushed him to his rampage.

Despite Mr. ChoÂ’s time in the mental health system, when an English professor was disturbed by his writings last fall and contacted the associate dean of students, the dean told the professor that there was no record of any problems and that nothing could be done, said the instructor, Lisa Norris.

The quest to have him committed, documented in court papers, was made after a female student complained of unwelcome telephone calls and in-person communication from Mr. Cho on Nov. 27, 2005. The woman declined to press charges, and the campus police referred the case to the disciplinary system of the university, Chief Wendell Flinchum said.

Mr. ChoÂ’s disciplinary record was not released because of privacy laws. The associate vice president for student affairs, Edward F. D. Spencer, said it would not be unusual if no disciplinary action had been taken in such a case. On Dec. 12, a second woman asked the police to put a stop to Mr. ChoÂ’s instant messages to her. She, too, declined to press charges.

The police said Mr. Cho did not threaten the women, who described the efforts at contact as “annoying.” But later on the day of the second complaint, an unidentified acquaintance of Mr. Cho notified the police that he might be suicidal.

Mr. Cho went voluntarily to the Police Department, which referred him to a mental health agency off campus, Chief Flinchum said. A counselor recommended involuntary commitment, and a judge signed an order saying that he “presents an imminent danger to self or others” and sent him to Carilion St. Albans Psychiatric Hospital in Radford for an evaluation.

“Affect is flat and mood is depressed,” a doctor there wrote. “He denies suicidal ideations. He does not acknowledge symptoms of a thought disorder. His insight and judgment are sound.”

The doctor determined that Mr. Cho was mentally ill, but not an imminent danger, and the judge declined to commit him, instead ordering outpatient treatment.

Officials said they did not know whether Mr. Cho had received subsequent counseling.

Which raises a different issue -- our society does not generally allow for the forcible treatment of metal illness, and has not done so since the compassionate liberal reforms of the 1960s threw open the gates of the nation's insane asylums and mental hospitals. Individual autonomy has been the rule for four decades, and the right to refuse treatment for mental illness has been viewed (quite properly, might I add) as a basic right of every citizen, just as it is for virtually any other medical condition. Unfortunately, that leaves a gaping hole through which the truly dangerous like Cho can walk.

And then there is federal and state education law, which further restricts what colleges and universities (not to mention public schools like the ones where I teach) can do when faced with a mentally ill student. They are liable if they don't act to protect the student and others from a mentally ill student's behavior -- but are also liable if they take any action deemed "discriminatory" against that same student. Small wonder, then, that Cho was allowed to remain at Virginia Tech.

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Yeah, it really does suck to get a defective car, loaded with problems that cannot be fixed. Maybe it is a design problem, a manufacturing defect, or some other problem -- but some cars are simply snake-bit from the day you drive them off the lot. Fortunately, in most states there are laws to protect you in such a situation.

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And if you are going to make yourself a cog in the repressive machinery of a human rights violating entity like Red China, expect to be sued.

A human rights group sued Yahoo on Wednesday, accusing the Internet giant of abetting the torture of pro-democracy writers by releasing data that allowed China's government to identify them.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, says the company was complicit in the arrests of 57-year-old Wang Xiaoning and other Chinese Internet activists. The suit is the latest development in a campaign by advocacy groups to spotlight the conduct of U.S. companies in China.

As they seek a slice of the booming Chinese market, Yahoo and other American companies have sometimes set aside core American values, such as free speech, to comply with the communist government's laws.

The suit, in trying to hold Yahoo accountable, could become an important test case. Advocacy groups are seeking to use a 217-year-old U.S. law to punish corporations for human rights violations abroad, an effort the Bush administration has opposed.

In 2003, Wang began serving a 10-year sentence on charges that he incited subversion with online treatises criticizing the government. He is named as a plaintiff in the Yahoo suit, which was filed with help from the World Organization for Human Rights USA, based in Washington.

Yahoo is guilty of "an act of corporate irresponsibility," said Morton Sklar, executive director of the group. "Yahoo had reason to know that if they provided China with identification information that those individuals would be arrested."

I'm ashamed of the Bush Administration for opposing this suit -- and wish that they would instead seek criminal penalties against Yahoo, Google, and other companies that seek to make money by turning democracy advocates over to oppressive regimes for their exercise of a right as fundamental as freedom of speech.

What next? Will Yahoo cooperate with Islamists in identifying targets for beheading due to their "Islamophobic" statements and sentiments?

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My wife really wants to go on a cruise -- an Alaskan cruise, if you want to be specific. It may not happen for a while, but I am committed to taking her on one eventually.

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But only the ones who engage in speech that is "crazy".

It's probably more effective, though, to find and remove these potential killers — and try to deny them the most lethal hardware. That means we must detain them for their words and deny them guns.

As we see time and again, the right to bear arms and be crazy is a deadly combination.

And given the Left's willingness to classify opposition to certain political agenda's as a form of mental illness (ie "homophobia" -- the moral belief that there is something wrong with homosexual behavior, as was the clear and consistent Christian teaching ofevery Christian denomination until until only few years ago; or "Islamophobia" -- the opposition to jihadi terrorism), this is rather frightening. But then again, we've already seen where such detentions of the "mentally ill" because of their exercise of the right to freedom of speech -- it was a favorite tactic in the Soviet Union to crack down on dissent.

But given Cragg Hines' Froma Harrop's opposition to the Second Amendment, it isn't surprising to see him willing to abandon the First Amendment as well. She's just a little bit more honest about it than the average left-winger.

UPDATE: I was notified about the error in identifying the author of the piece earlier today, and fixed it as soon as I came home.

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Drug abuse happens in our society, all too often. So does alcoholism. And as a teacher, I can tell you that they happen among my students. Not long ago, in fact, one of my students had to enter rehab because her drinking had gotten so out of control that she was smuggling alcohol into class in a bottle of apple juice -- she could not make it through the day without drinking!

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This from an article about the consequences of the state of Texas appointing a conservator to begin fixing the problems at Texas Southern University -- which could include the loss of accreditation by the school for not having a multi-member board of directors.

Beyond degrading the value of degrees earned at TSU....

Given the reputation of this corrupt open-enrollment school -- which is little more than a four-year community college with a graduate program and a law school -- I don't think that the loss of accreditation could do much harm to the value of a TSU degree.

UPDATE: Well, at least the Houston Chronicle is willing to call for the state to do something about this pathetic institution. But in typical fashion, TSU regents are unwilling to act in the best interests of the school.

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Contrary to the wailings of the supporters of legalized abortion infanticide, this decision does not overturn the ill-considered and flawed precedent established by Roe v. Wade. Rather, it reinforces that precedent by recognizing that the government does have a compelling interest in limiting late-term abortions, which Roe itself indicates can be banned. And this decision does not even go that far, merely allowing the restriction of a single method of abortion infanticide that kills a child that has effectively been delivered.

he Supreme Court upheld the nationwide ban on a controversial abortion procedure Wednesday, handing abortion opponents the long-awaited victory they expected from a more conservative bench.

The 5-4 ruling said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.

The opponents of the act "have not demonstrated that the Act would be unconstitutional in a large fraction of relevant cases," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion.

The decision pitted the court's conservatives against its liberals, with President Bush's two appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, siding with the majority.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia also were in the majority.

It was the first time the court banned a specific procedure in a case over how — not whether — to perform an abortion.

Roe v. Wade allowed for regulation of second and third trimester abortions -- and a ban on the latter. How can the supporters of Roe complain?

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After all, why should the Constitution get in the way of imposing political correctness and silencing conservatives who dissent from the liberal orthodoxy?

Displaying a dramatic disregard for students’ constitutional rights, a committee of the University of Rhode Island (URI) Student Senate voted on Monday to derecognize the College Republicans student group. For months, the Student Senate has demanded that the group publicly apologize for advertising a satirical $100 “scholarship” for white, heterosexual, American males. The College Republicans refused to apologize and contacted the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help. FIRE is now calling upon URI President Robert Carothers, who has already informed the Senate that it could not compel student speech, to reverse the decision to derecognize the group.

“Neither the Student Senate nor anyone else at URI has the power to force the College Republicans to say things against their will,” FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. “As bad as it may be to tell people what they cannot say, it is still worse to tell them what they must say. The Supreme Court has long recognized that compelled speech is not compatible with free societies. It is stunning that URI’s student government would show such contempt for fundamental rights, especially after URI’s own president explained it to them.”

The College Republicans student organization first advertised the satirical “White, Heterosexual, American Male” “scholarship” in November, 2006. The scholarship consisted of a nominal $100 to be awarded to someone fitting those criteria who submitted an application and an essay on the adversities he has faced. College Republicans President Ryan Bilodeau explained that the point was to use satire to protest scholarships awarded on the basis of race, gender, or nationality. Over 40 URI students applied for the “scholarship,” many submitting equally satirical application essays.

In a meeting on February 19, the Student Senate’s Student Organizations Advisory and Review Committee (SOARC) prohibited the College Republicans from disbursing the money. The group agreed that it would not give out the $100, but SOARC decided that even advertising the satirical “scholarship” violated URI’s anti-discrimination bylaws and demanded that the group publish an apology in the campus newspaper. Unwilling to apologize, Bilodeau appealed SOARC’s decision. The Senate denied that appeal.

FIRE wrote to Senate President Neil Cavanaugh on March 13, stating that because the Student Senate derives its authority from a public university, it must comply with the First Amendment prohibition on compelled speech. The Student Senate, however, in a memo to the College Republicans on March 27, ruled again that the College Republicans must publish an apology and claimed authority to force them to do so. That sanction was later reduced to an “explanation” to be published in the campus newspaper and a mandatory apology to be sent to all of the students who applied for the scholarship.

The College Republicans agreed to publish an explanation of its intentions, but refused to write any apologies. FIRE wrote to URI President Robert Carothers the following day to urge him to intervene in the situation. FIRE wrote, “URI administrators have a legal duty to step in where the Student Senate has failed and to check its attempt to trample upon students’ most basic freedom of conscience.” And in a letter dated April 6, President Carothers did indeed instruct the Senate in no uncertain terms to drop its unconstitutional demand for an apology. Carothers wrote that the mandatory apology “does not meet constitutional standards as laid forth in the First Amendment and in subsequent court decisions interpreting the standard.”

But at a meeting on Monday night, SOARC nonetheless unanimously voted to ignore both its constitutional obligations and CarothersÂ’ directive and derecognize the College Republicans for refusing to issue an apology. SOARCÂ’s decision will be voted on by the entire Student Senate on Wednesday, April 25.

FIRE wrote another letter to Carothers yesterday calling upon him to immediately reverse SOARC’s decision to derecognize the group. FIRE wrote that “y fulfilling this responsibility as a public official, you can teach the Senate leadership that they must respect the rights of URI students and help to instill in them an understanding of the full repercussions for repeatedly and recklessly defying the Constitution.”

“URI’s student government thinks it is above the law—that it can take fees extracted from students by a state university and yet ignore the constitutional obligations that come with them. It is sadly mistaken,” Lukianoff said. “President Carothers must act now to stop this rogue organization from conducting these unlawful acts under the aegis of the university.”

FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation that unites civil rights and civil liberties leaders, scholars, journalists, and public intellectuals from across the political and ideological spectrum on behalf of individual rights, due process, freedom of expression, academic freedom, and rights of conscience at our nationÂ’s colleges and universities. FIREÂ’s efforts to preserve liberty universities across America can be viewed at www.thefire.org.

It strikes me that only one course of action is open to President Carothers -- using his authority as the president of the University of Rhode Island to disband the Student SenateÂ’s Student Organizations Advisory and Review Committee and the entire Student Senate, replacing them with organizations that clearly and unambiguously are bound by the United States Constitution (which those two organizations legally are though they claim otherwise) and which accept the limitations that the Bill of Rights imposes upon them.

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No, not the material sent to NBC News by the evil bastard responsible for the Hokie Horror, nor even the fact that he sent it to some media outlet.

No, the shocking thing is their decision to turn it all over to the police.

Sometime after he killed two people in a Virginia university dormitory but before he slaughtered 30 more in a classroom building Monday morning, Cho Seung-Hui mailed NBC News a large package, including photographs and videos, lamenting that “I didn’t have to do this.”

Cho, 23, a senior English major at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, killed 32 people in two attacks before taking his own life.

NBC News President Steve Capus said the network received the package, which was not addressed to a specific person, in Tuesday afternoonÂ’s mail delivery, but it was not opened until Wednesday morning. The network immediately turned the materials over to FBI agents in New York.

But wait -- I thought that the press turning information over to the media is unethical and a threat to freedom of the press. You know, "making the press an investigative arm of the state" and all that crap we hear every time the news media wants to withhold evidence of a crime -- especially when they are the only folks who know the identity of the criminal, such as those who illegally leak classified national security information to them.

I guess that principle are only principles for these people when they disagree with the actions of the criminal -- and when they are not complicit in the crime.

Oh, and by the way -- this material does show how depraved that the murderer Cho really was.

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One more act of terrorism against Christians in a Muslim country -- but at least they weren't detained by police and made to miss their flight home.

Three people have been killed in an attack on a Turkish publishing house which prints Bibles and Christian literature, according to media reports.

CNN Turk television said the victims' throats had been cut and that police had detained six people in connection with the incident on Wednesady at the Zirve publishing house in Malatya.

Television pictures showed casualties being carried out of the building and one man

The attack follows the murder earlier this year of Hrant Dink, an Armenian-Turkish editor, by an ultra-nationalist.

Dink's killing prompted extra security measures to be taken for writers and journalists.

I guess they recognize the importance of shutting down a publisher of Bibles -- for the Truth will set men and women free from the evil that ensnares them. And so we have this day three more saints in heaven.

H/T Gateway Pundit

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Who is Eric Schiffer?

What can I say -- Eric Schiffer is an actor who is in discussion to appear in a comedic "buddy flick" with an "A-list" star in the near future. He is also starring in an independent remake of of the old Charles Bronson vehicle, Death Wish Returns. He is also the author of Emotionally Charged Learning, a book that explores the nexus between education, emotions and entertainment that makes management, and knowledge transfer into an exciting new phenomenon. Furthermore, he has a history as a successful entrepreneur.

Indeed, it appears that Eric Schiffer is a true Renaissance Man, a veritable font of knowledge and entertainment in our midst! He is an intriguing individual, and i encourage you to learn more about him.

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On the morning after the Columbine massacre, one of my 11th graders asked me what I would do if a gunman were to enter our school -- an especially pressing issue given that the classroom was on an inside corridor with no windows and only one door.

My response?

"I would put myself between you guys and the guy with the gun -- and pray that you would get out even if I didn't."

On Monday, Professor Liviu Librescu did exactly that for his students.

As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 76-year-old survivor sacrificed his life to save his students in Monday's shooting at Virginia Tech College that left 33 dead and over two dozen wounded.

Professor Liviu Librescu, 76, threw himself in front of the shooter when the man attempted to enter his classroom. The Israeli mechanics and engineering lecturer was shot to death, "but all the students lived - because of him," Virginia Tech student Asael Arad - also an Israeli - told Army Radio.

Several of Librescu's other students sent e-mails to his wife, Marlena, telling of how he had blocked the gunman's way and saved their lives, said Librescu's son, Joe.

"My father blocked the doorway with his body and asked the students to flee," Joe Librescu said in a telephone interview from his home outside of Tel Aviv. "Students started opening windows and jumping out."

Librescu was respected in his field, his son said.

"His work was his life, in a sense," said Joe. "That was a good place for him to practice his research."

I honor the sacrifice and memory of Liviu Librescu, and hope that I will have the strength to emulate him if ever faced with his choice -- and pray I never have to do so.

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If you are in the UK, you've got a great site available for buying, selling, and trading DVDs, CDs, Games or Books with your fellow subjects of the Queen -- Hitflip UK!

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I've said in the past that I'll vote for a Nazi or a Communist -- or worse yet, Hillary Clinton -- before I vote for John McCain for President because of his role in imposing campaign spending regulations that fly in the face of the clear language of the US Constitution.

Today, Bradley Smith lays out the constitutional problems with such regulations.

In his most recent Townhall column, Armstrong Williams has laid out a plan that he claims will "divorce" money from politics. In the process, Williams employs every tired canard of the campaign finance "reform" community.

But a few words were noticeably absent from Williams' column. There was no mention, for example, of "the First Amendment." Nor was there any mention of "free speech." And while I looked for "freedom" and "liberty," alas, these too were absent. This comes as no surprise. Advocates of political speech regulation have for so long felt unconstrained by the First Amendment's seemingly clear command, that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech," that they now ignore it as a matter of course.

The closest Williams comes to addressing the constitutional problems with campaign finance regulation is the bare assertion that "giving money is not giving voice." But it most certainly is. In modern society, money facilitates speech. It costs money to publish a newspaper or operate a broadcast station. It is not possible to run a political campaign or effectively criticize officeholders without spending money for signs, advertisements, rallies, mailers, and more.

In his column, Williams had gone so far as to quote a misguided senior citizen who wants political speech limitation and regulation.

But I (and millions of Americans, a few of which are even lawmakers) disagree. First, giving money is not giving voice. Second, privately donated money is not necessary for a campaign if "clean" or public money is given equally to each candidate. I agree with the political activist Doris Haddock who literally walked across the country at the age of 88 in hopes of bringing about true campaign finance reform. She said, "If money is speech, then those with more money have more speech, and that idea is antithetical to a democracy that cherishes political fairness. It makes us no longer equal citizens."

Haddock, of course, is wrong -- unless one wishes to argue that the existence of large corporate media like the television networks, New York Times, and Time Magazine are also "antithetical to a democracy that cherishes political fairness" and "makes us no longer equal citizens." After all, the vast spending of these news organizations ALSO give them an unequal voice that can drown out the voices of the less well-heeled among us (such as this blogger) and get them access that the common man cannot obtain. Would Haddock (and Williams) accept the argument that "money is not speech" and therefore allow Congress to limit the budgets of news organizations and the amount that Americans spend to access the same? Or how about regulations, similar to those imposed upon advocacy groups, that ban reporting upon or editorializing about candidates and officeholders for 25% of an election year? Of course not!

Smith then points out the fundamental understanding of the Founders about the nature of men and the nature of our constitutional republic -- and Williams' fundamental misunderstanding of the First Amendment.

When the Founders drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, they were not naïve. They knew that men weren't angels, and that factions would sometimes try to harness the power of government for their own benefit. They wrote the First Amendment with full knowledge of this threat. Indeed, they wrote the First Amendment because they also knew that one of the surest checks against government corruption was the unfettered ability to criticize those in government. Williams' scheme abandons these cherished First Amendment principles. The likely result is more and harder to detect corruption. The long term effects could be even worse. As the Founders knew, prohibiting ordinary citizens from effectively discussing politics is no prescription for clean government. It is a prescription for tyranny.

Money may or may not be speech, depending upon how you look at it -- but cutting off private money is a sure way of strangling the speech of citizens, an action which the Founders would have rightly labeled tyranny and which they would have understood merited the exercise the rights guaranteed under the Second Amendment to dislodge the tyrants.

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What else would you expect from the New York Times?

Not much is known about the gunman, who killed himself, or about his motives or how he got his weapons, so it is premature to draw too many lessons from this tragedy. But it seems a safe bet that in one way or another, this will turn out to be another instance in which an unstable or criminally minded individual had no trouble arming himself and harming defenseless people.

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Our hearts and the hearts of all Americans go out to the victims and their families. Sympathy was not enough at the time of Columbine, and eight years later it is not enough. What is needed, urgently, is stronger controls over the lethal weapons that cause such wasteful carnage and such unbearable loss.

Which ignores, of course, that the problem is likely to be one of illegally obtained guns -- guns already banned under the statutes that exist -- and not legally obtained weapons. Indeed, as I've already noted, the laws and regulations in placed guaranteed that the stable and non-criminally-minded students lacked the means to stop this individual from continuing his rampage.

And, of course, there is the Houston Chronicle.

Proponents of unfettered access to firearms rely on the rallying cry, "Guns don't kill people; people kill people." That's true. The horrifying reality is that too many Americans — afflicted with mental illness, alienation or hatred — are ready and willing to take life. And they can arm themselves to the hilt without ever undergoing a background check.

While Virginia Tech police believe they know who was responsible for the shootings, his motives remain a mystery that might never be satisfactorily solved.

Meanwhile, the mass murderer is another in a series of American figures who combine a fascination with deadly weapons, easy access to them, a grudge against the world and an unexplained capacity for cruelty.

And given the description of the weapons used in this shooting, it appears that they were not legally obtained at all -- meaning that even the most stringent background checks would have been ineffective because buyers and sellers of illegal weapons, by definition, will ignore any law designed to limit gun sales.

At least the Washington Post showed a little moderation, asking questions rather than immediately urging that potential victims law-abiding citizens exercising their constitutional rights be further restricted and disarmed.

The atrocity at Virginia Tech sparked instant and fierce debates, online and elsewhere, even as survivors were fighting for their lives. Under what circumstances, and where, did the gunman obtain his weapons? Would the university have suffered the same tragedy if Virginia law did not prohibit the carrying of guns on campus? Should metal detectors be ubiquitous in American classrooms and dormitories? And why are gunmen so apt to carry out their lethal rampages at American schools?

So many questions -- and a same resistance to the siren call of the failed solution of limitation on gun rights.

I have to agree with the Post's conclusion as well.

As the debates rage and questions are raised, the mourning will go on. But the parents, relatives and friends of the victims at Virginia Tech will not mourn alone. Their tragedy is America's too.

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I reported on this case when it happened, and feel great compassion for this young man.

David Ritcheson had been a running back on the Klein Collins High School football team. He was homecoming prince as a freshman and had a girlfriend. He "hung out with the good crowd," he says, and had every reason to look forward to returning last fall.

But once classes resumed, Ritcheson was overwhelmed by the looks he got everywhere he went — in the halls, in the cafeteria, in classrooms.

The looks all said the same thing: You're a victim, how do you deal with it? Everybody knew what had happened to him, and the attack, he says, "was just so degrading."

In a case that drew national attention, Ritcheson, a Mexican-American, was severely assaulted last April 23 by two youths while partying in Spring. One of the attackers, a skinhead named David Tuck, yelled ethnic slurs and kicked a pipe up his rectum, severely damaging his internal organs and leaving Ritcheson in the hospital for three months and eight days — almost all of it in critical care.

In an hour-long interview at his home with his parents on Monday, Ritcheson agreed to be photographed and have his name made public. He reflected on his life before the attack, described the lengthy recovery that followed and looked forward to wresting something positive from the experience.

"How hasn't it changed me?" he asked, summing up the experience.

Today, Ritcheson will be in Washington, D.C., to testify before a congressional committee about why he feels federal hate crime laws need to be expanded. As much as he doesn't want to be a "poster child," Ritcheson is convinced he can do some good.

The problem with his position? The facts of his case show that a federal hate crime law is not necessary.

Tuck, 19, and Keith Turner, 18, both of Spring, eventually were convicted of aggravated sexual assault for attacking Ritcheson in the backyard. Tuck was given a life sentence, Turner 90 years.

Life in prison. Ninety years in prison. Excuse me, but it does not strike me that there is anything more that can be done, unless you simply want to take these two mutts out and put a bullet into the base of their skulls. It is rather like the call for a hate crime law here in Texas after the James Byrd dragging in Jasper -- where two of the three perps got the death penalty and the one who cooperated with authorities got life. How would you "enhance" those sentences?

Don't think perpetrators of hate crimes are getting punished sufficiently? Fine, I'll agree with you -- but the solution is not a hate crime law. The solution, instead, is to enhance the penalties for the underlying offenses, across the board, so that actions like theirs are punished harshly. Because after all, what is it we are out to punish -- the crime or the motive? The thoughts or the actions? I hope and pray that the answer is obvious.

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Screw this lineup for NBC's Sunday Night pre-game show!

Keith Olbermann has been named co-host of NBC's "Football Night in America" studio show, joining host Bob Costas and co-host Cris Collinsworth, and analysts Jerome Bettis and Tiki Barber, it was announced today by Dick Ebersol, Chairman, NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. Olbermann will call highlights and debate the NFL news and issues of the day with his "Football Night in America" colleagues. This will be Olbermann's first network sports assignment in six years.

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"Keith helped to elevate the medium of sports television earlier in his career, and now he will add his original style and flair to 'Football Night in America,'" said Ebersol. "I'm delighted to welcome him back into the NBC Sports family."

"This will, obviously, be great fun and a great privilege for me," said Olbermann. "To be reunited with NBC Sports, and Dick, and the entire production team, produces all the warm-and-fuzzies you'd be expecting. And even if they weren't old friends and colleagues, to get to work with the nonpareil of sportscasters in Bob, and the most insightful and honest of sports analysts in Cris, will be rewarding and challenging. I hope I can hold up my end of the equation."

Here's hoping the show tanks -- and indeed, I may skip the Sunday night game as well, just as my form of protest against the choice of the odious Olbermann.

H/T Hube at Colossus of Rhodey

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I spent my first couple of years of college in Lexington, VA, just up the road from Blacksburg. I've always had an affection for that school, as opposed to the snootier UVA. For that reason, today's horror cuts to the heart.

An outburst of gunfire at a Virginia Tech dormitory, followed two hours later by a ruthless string of attacks at a classroom building, killed 32 students, faculty and staff and wounded about 30 others yesterday in the deadliest shooting rampage in the nation's history.

The shooter, whose name was not released last night, carried two 9mm semiautomatic handguns and wore blue jeans, a blue jacket and a vest holding additional ammunition, law enforcement officials and witnesses said. Witnesses described the shooter as a young man of Asian descent -- a silent killer who was calm and showed no expression as he pursued and shot his victims. He killed himself as police closed in.

It will be interesting to learn why this evil happened, though it will not bring back the dead or heal the wounded and grieving.

But there is another point that has to be made.

Virginia Tech is a gun-free school. Students, employees, and visitors are not allowed to bring their guns to campus, even if they have a concealed carry permit and have met all of the stringent requirements to get one.

And so the law-abiding adults of Virginia Tech were disarmed by government policy.

As this murderer calmly executed his victims, not one had the means to actually engage in self-defense. As he massacred these innocents, not one of them could stop the evil-doer. All they could do was wait for help to arrive -- and die waiting.

Because you see, in the name of some sort of illusory security, these adult citizens were stripped of the essential liberty to defend one's own life -- while one man intent upon mayhem was unconcerned about the niceties of the campus gun ban.

Some will use this event to call for more gun control. That is not the solution. Rather, more guns in the hands of more trained and licensed individuals would have made Virginia Tech a safer place today -- and that is an equation that I would contend would be true at any college or university in the country.

Or in (almost) any workplace or any shopping mall.

Or any public place, for that matter.

How many more tragedies will it take, with disarmed citizens slaughtered like sheep, before America will wake up to the reality that more guns in more hands equals more safety?

Because, to use a trite cliche that happens to be true, when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns.

That is the lesson to draw from today's carnage.

UPDATE: Here's a thought from one of the disarmed concealed carry permit holders who attends Virginia Tech -- WRITTEN FOLLOWING LAST FALL'S INCIDENT.

Of all of the emotions and thoughts that were running through my head that morning, the most overwhelming one was of helplessness.

That feeling of helplessness has been difficult to reconcile because I knew I would have been safer with a proper means to defend myself.

I would also like to point out that when I mentioned to a professor that I would feel safer with my gun, this is what she said to me, “I would feel safer if you had your gun.”

The policy that forbids students who are legally licensed to carry in Virginia needs to be changed.

I am qualified and capable of carrying a concealed handgun and urge you to work with me to allow my most basic right of self-defense, and eliminate my entrusting my safety and the safety of my classmates to the government.

This incident makes it clear that it is time that Virginia Tech and the commonwealth of Virginia let me take responsibility for my safety.

Doesn't that argument look quite reasonable in light of the unfolding horror at Virginia Tech?

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After all, the major media sought to destroy the Duke lacrosse players accused of rape and sexual assault -- because you know, that's what rich white boys do to black women. And when the case was shown to be built upon a thin tissue of lies and naked political ambition, the same media has been strangely silent about its responsibility -- and in some cases still seeks to question whether these young men are really innocent.

At least Howard Kurtz raises the question of what the media should do now.

The combination of race, crime, sports and a blue-chip university proved irresistible for a business that thrives on creating national soap operas. Did the indictments, as the team's lacrosse season was canceled, have to be covered? Of course. But media outlets framed the story as one of privilege vs. poverty, black vs. white, athletes above the law -- if, of course, it happened.

Television showed the homes of the players' parents. Newsweek put two of the defendants' mug shots on the cover. Sometimes the word "alleged" was dropped in the process. "I'm so glad they didn't miss a lacrosse game over a little thing like gang rape," Headline News host Nancy Grace said.

Once discrepancies surfaced in the accuser's account, some local and national outlets did a good job of bird-dogging the case. But by then the presumption of innocence had virtually vanished.

The three players were not choir boys -- the team had, after all, invited a pair of strippers to a midnight party -- but they hardly deserved the national scorn of being loudly trumpeted as accused rapists.

The accuser got to make her charges from behind a curtain of anonymity, which is entirely proper in sexual assault cases. But I'm not so sure the media should continue to shield her now that investigators have determined her to be a liar. The New York Post, Washington Times, and Raleigh News & Observer have all identified the woman.

How about an apology -- and a serious reexamination of the notion that accusers in sexual assault cases deserve anonymity while the names and faces of the accused are displayed for all to see and vilify?

And we won't get into the question of what so-called civil rights leaders owe these victims of racial injustice -- because after all, it was Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and others at the head of the lynch mob.

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The Islamofascists of the Taliban destroyed them -- the world is seeking to restore them.

SNOWS are melting in central Afghanistan and roads to the town of Bamiyan have reopened after unseasonal rain - meaning work on restoring the giant Buddha statues destroyed by the Taleban can resume.

Piles of rubble lie below two gaping niches in the red-brown cliff facing the town where the statues had stood since the sixth century until the Taleban brought them down in 2001, branding them unIslamic.

The larger, identified chunks of stone from the standing Buddhas have been stored or covered, but thousands of fragments and rubble lie in the open. "It's impossible to work here for at least six months of the year," said Habiba Sarabi, the governor of Bamiyan. "We hope work will resume by June."

She said reconstruction of at least one statue - the larger one, which stood 174ft tall - would begin after a request from the federal government to UNESCO.

Reconstructed bits of statue will be mixed with clay in a process called anastylosis, pieced together and bonded back on to the cliff face. It is an immense task and experts are divided on whether reconstruction is feasible or even necessary.

A team has been clearing the site of mines, but its work is not complete. Hundreds of poor people live in caves on the cliffside, and preventing encroachment into the World Heritage Site is a key issue.

Preliminary estimates of the cost of rebuilding the larger statue are £25 million, and it is debatable whether that might be better used elsewhere in the war-ravaged and impoverished nation.

Whenever work starts, it will take years - perhaps a decade - to complete. "There are at least 3,000 pieces of the larger Buddha and 1,500 from the smaller one," said Ms Sarabi.

These statues are a part of the heritage of all humanity -- their reconstruction needs to be a priority. Especially if we are to send a clear signal to the Islamists that WE WILL NOT SUBMIT!

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The gall of these folks, insisting that Metro be required to build its light rail line where they said they would -- or that the matter be placed back before the voters for approval.

In what is shaping up as a repeat of an unsuccessful but expensive legal battle to stop the Main Street rail line, opponents of light rail on Richmond have gone to court. Perhaps preliminary to a full-blown lawsuit, a single business owner has asked a state district judge to compel Metro officials to answer questions about plans for the westward extension of the system.

The request raises a familiar issue often cited by rail opponents. In a 2003 referendum, Houston voters narrowly approved a plan authorizing Metro to expand the rail system with seven additional lines, including a route, labeled Westpark, running from Wheeler Station at Main to the Hillcroft Transit Center. Opponents of rail anywhere on Richmond argue that any route except one along Westpark requires fresh approval from the voters.

Metro officials correctly contend the names of the proposed routes were general and open to change. They point to additional wording on the ballot, repeated three times: "Final scope, length of rail segments or lines or other details, together with implementation schedule, will be based upon demand and completion of the project development process, including community input."

Interestingly enough, community input on the proposed Richmond line has been negative -- but that isn't slowing Metro down. Then again, every other claim made by Metro about the accident-prone train to nowhere has been demonstrated to be false -- so why not the routes we get as well?

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Maybe they want a candidate who can win.

As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton seeks to reassemble the Democratic money machine her husband built, some of its major fund-raisers have already signed on with Senator Barack Obama.

Among the biggest fund-raisers for Mr. ObamaÂ’s campaign are as many as a half-dozen former guests of the Clinton White House. At least two are close enough to the Clintons to have slept in the Lincoln bedroom.

At minimum, a dozen were major fund-raisers for President Bill Clinton. At least four worked in the administration and one, James Rubin, is a son of a former Clinton Treasury Secretary, Robert E. Rubin. About two dozen of the top Obama fund-raisers have contributed to Mrs. ClintonÂ’s Senate campaigns or political action committee, some as recently as a few months ago.

A list of Mr. ObamaÂ’s top fund-raisers released Sunday showed the extent to which the Democratic Party establishment, once presumed to back Mrs. Clinton, has become more fragmented and drifted into her rivalÂ’s camp, lending the early stages of the Democratic primary campaign the feeling of a family feud. Some of the movement would have been inevitable given Mr. ClintonÂ’s former dominance of the party.

The donors helped Mr. Obama, a first-term senator little known outside Illinois four years ago, best Mrs. Clinton in the first quarter of fund-raising for the Democratic primary by $5.7 million, according to reports filed Sunday with the Federal Election Commission.

But her campaign proved it still had the support of some deep pockets. About 5,100 big contributors accounted for about three quarters of the $26 million combined that she raised for the primary and general election, pulling her very slightly ahead of Mr. Obama by just $200,000 in total fund-raising for the quarter. And, with $10 million rolling over to her primary campaign from her last Senate race in New York, Mrs. Clinton was well ahead in cash in the bank.

Half of Americans reject Hillary as a potential president -- why would the Democrats want to nominate her?

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Kids are not supposed to die. As a child, you "know" that is "the truth". I believed that truth with a certainty -- until my neighbor Tammy was diagnosed with a brain tumor right after we started third grade. By Easter, Tammy was gone -- but only after a series of surgeries and other treatments that left her bereft of her beautiful hair, in frequent pain, and often too ill to sit up due to the nausea and weakness brought on by the treatment. They just couldn't get to all of the cancer. It has been thirty-five years, but I still weep when I think of her and her suffering.

There is a new brain tumor treatment out there called the Gamma Knife. I'm not a medical expert to give you details, but I do hope and pray it measures up to the website's claims. After all, I long for the day when there will be no more Tammys -- because I still believe, with all my heart, that kids are not supposed to die.

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Maybe it is because our party finally recognizes who the real enemy is -- the Democrats, not any of the disparate factions that make up the GOP.

A parade of Republican White House candidates appealed for support from over 1,000 Iowa Republicans on Saturday, with two of their leading candidates — Senator John McCain and Rudolph W. Giuliani — assailing Democrats in Washington for pressing legislation that would set a timetable for bringing American troops back from Iraq.

It was the first time that the major Republican candidates had appeared at the same event — the annual Lincoln Day dinner, held in the sprawling ballroom of a downtown convention center here. For more than three hours, an audience of the state’s most active Republicans listened attentively as candidates proclaimed their strong opposition to abortion rights, called for a crackdown against illegal immigrants and warned that a Democratic return to the White House would result in higher taxes.

Although the event was called a “Unity Dinner,” the speeches reflected divisions among the Republicans on various issues, in particular abortion. Several candidates, including Mr. McCain of Arizona and Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, presented themselves as lifelong opponents of abortion rights, drawing clear if unspoken contrasts with Mr. Giuliani, who supports abortion rights, and Mr. Romney, who once supported abortion rights but now opposes them.

But the strongest divisions emerged between the parties, as Mr. Giuliani and Mr. McCain offered attacks on Democrats for their efforts to bring an end to the war in Iraq. Apart from his remark about abortions — and a warm-up joke that involved Zsa Zsa Gabor — Mr. McCain devoted almost his entire nine-minute speech to arguing in support of the war, and attacking Democrats for opposing it.

America is in a fight for its survival -- and the other party wants to surrender. Are you surprised that the GOP would be more concerned about that than the issues that we spar over within the party?

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Am I the only one who has a problem with the conviction of a 17-year-old for having consensual sex with a 15-year-old?

The former football player, Genarlow Wilson, is serving 10 years without parole for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl at a New YearÂ’s Eve party, an offense that constituted aggravated child molesting even though he was 17 at the time.

The mandatory sentence shocked even the jury that convicted him. State law has since been changed to make most consensual sex between teenagers a misdemeanor.

But the courts have ruled that the new law does not apply to Mr. Wilson, and the district attorney in his case, David McDade of Douglas County, has opposed efforts this session to pass a law that would allow judges to review earlier cases and to revise sentences.

“Six young men basically gang-raped a 17-year-old and had repeated sex acts with a 15-year-old,” Mr. McDade, told Channel 11, the local NBC affiliate, in March. “There’s no member of the legislature that I think would condone that behavior.”

But the jury in Mr. WilsonÂ’s case disagreed with Mr. McDadeÂ’s depiction. After being repeatedly shown a home videotape of sex, drugs and alcohol at the New YearÂ’s Eve party in a hotel room in Douglas County, they acquitted Mr. Wilson of rape. The five other young men at the party have pleaded guilty to lesser charges. None have been convicted of rape.

“This is the same thing that happened in the Duke rape case, where some prosecutor exaggerated the facts out of self-interest,” said B. J. Bernstein, Mr. Wilson’s lawyer. The attorney general in North Carolina, Roy A. Cooper, called the prosecutor there, Michael B. Nifong, a “rogue.” Ms. Bernstein has called on Georgia’s attorney general, Thurbert E. Baker, to review the Wilson case and not to oppose a habeas corpus petition she filed last week.

I'm not saying that the activity that went on was right -- morally it wasn't -- but it clearly was not a felony that merits a decade in prison.

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And I'm sorry, but I disagree with this move.

The Vatican's ambassador to Israel will attend a Holocaust memorial service at the Yad Vashem museum, reversing an earlier decision to boycott the event, officials said Sunday.

Vatican officials had said they would skip the Sunday event because of a caption at the Holocaust museum describing the wartime conduct of Pope Pius XII.

Officials from Yad Vashem, the Vatican's Embassy and the Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed Sunday that the ambassador, Monsignor Antonio Franco, would attend.

The caption next to the picture of Pius reads, "even when reports about the murder of Jews reached the Vatican, the pope did not protest."

Pius "maintained his neutral position" with two exceptions, the caption says, criticizing "his silence and absence of guidelines." The exceptions were appeals to the rulers of Hungary and Slovakia toward the end of the war.

The boycott had threatened to upset fragile relations between Israel and the Vatican.

As I've said, this is a bad move, because the original decision was the correct one. Such blood libel should not be allowed to stand -- and no nation should participate in any event at Vad Yashem as long as such a lie appears.

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Well, maybe -- but he may have been heading that way in any event.

PRINCE William's five-year romance with Kate Middleton was dramatically killed off at a secret royal summit when the Queen said: "Don't rush down the aisle—we don't want another Diana."

Her Majesty issued the shock advice around 10 days ago after William sensationally confessed his doubts at a top-level family conference.

The prince told other royals, including Prince Charles and the Duke of Edinburgh, that he didn't want to commit to marriage in the near future and preferred to put his Army and state duties first.

Of course, this all came after he indicated he was not ready to marry her -- and his grandfather, Prince Phillip, offered what may have been the best piece of advice out there.

The final death blow to Wills' relationship with his university sweetheart was delivered by grandfather Prince Philip.

He declared: "You can't string her along for ever."

And if you aren't ready to marry someone after five years, are you ever going to be ready to take that step?

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Yhe winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Don't Know Your Enemy by Cheat Seeking Missiles, and Orwell, the Left, and 9/11 by American Future.  Here is a link to the full results of the vote).

Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

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Personally, having sat through her seminars as part of school in-service trainings, I would say yes.

According to Ruby K. Payne, a consultant to school systems locally and nationwide, teachers should know a few things about poor people.

The Texas-based author says in her book "A Framework for Understanding Poverty": Parents in poverty typically discipline children by beating or verbally chastising them; poor mothers may turn to sex for money and favors; poor students laugh when they get in trouble at school; and low-income parents tend to "beat around the bush" during parent-teacher conferences, instead of getting to the point.

In the past several years, at least five school systems in the Washington area have turned to Payne's lessons, books and workshops.

But many academics say her works are riddled with unverifiable assertions. At the American Educational Research Association's annual conference in Chicago last week, professors from the University of Texas at Austin delivered a report on Payne that argued that more than 600 of her descriptions of poverty in "Framework" cannot be proved true.

"She claims there is a single culture of poverty that people live in. It's an idea that's been discredited since at least the 1960s," said report co-author Randy Bomer.

My biggest criticism of her is that she is as much about instilling stereotypes as she is about tearing them down -- and many of those stereotypes are not healthy.

"She seems to be always stereotyping," Natialy Walker, Prince William's professional development supervisor, said during a staff meeting about Payne last month. "If only we could get away from all the labels and move beyond that."

I teach kids who are poor and minority -- nearly 70% of our kids are on free and reduced lunch, and we are only 12.5% white. And I've found that many of these stereotypes are false -- and get in the way of communicating with students and parents. This is especially true when we deal with Hispanic kids, because they often come from a very different culture from that upon which Payne bases her stereotypes.

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The body of a World War II airman has been identified.

The remains of a World War II navigator listed as missing in action for almost 63 years have been identified two years after they were found in Croatia, the brother of the deceased pilot said.

Air Force 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly's B-24 crashed on July 22, 1944, south of Dubrovnik, Croatia, near the Adriatic Sea. The plane carrying 10 crew members was returning from a bombing raid on oil fields in Romania.

Fellow crew members who survived the crash told Sam Kelly that his brother was the first to jump from the damaged aircraft, but he was struggling to straighten out his parachute and crashed into a mountain. He was 23.

''The irony is that my brother had been on 45 missions and had five more to go and he would have been discharged,'' Sam Kelly, 83, told The Oakland Press.

Kelly said he and his wife, Katie, were notified in February by the Defense Department that dental records matched the skeletal remains found in a shallow grave near the village of Cavtat.

The remains, first discovered by children in 2005, also included a button from an American military uniform, said Capt. Robert Frazer, a casualty assistance officer.

Kelly's remains were being held in a military facility in Hawaii and until they are shipped to Michigan for a May 12 funeral.

We have so many American patriots willing to show up to provide an honor guard for our dead from the current conflict which was thrust upon us by the Islamists -- I hope that some of these are available to provide a fitting homecoming for 1st Lt. Archibald Kelly when he returns home to his permanent place of rest.

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Incompetence run amok at the school justifies this action.

Gov. Rick Perry asked Texas Southern University's regents to resign Friday in favor of a single conservator with extraordinary powers to make changes at the financially troubled school.

The governor did not announce who the conservator would be, but campus leaders have heard the name of Kerney Laday, a TXU Corp. board member and retired Xerox Corp. executive.

Pending Senate confirmation, Laday, 65, would be placed in charge of the university's spending, with the ability to fire any employee, hire new people and change the administrative structure. The conservator would likely be in place for a year, said Krista Moody, a spokeswoman for the governor.

The proposed move comes after a series of financial missteps and a spending scandal that led to criminal charges against the university's former president, Priscilla Slade, and three aides.

The state Senate and House leadership first must appoint a committee to authorize Perry's recommendation of conservatorship. Confirmation of his choice would come later.

"Conservatorship will bring a strong leader to the forefront of the university to reinstate accountability, take immediate and decisive action to correct mismanagement, and make the fiscal decisions necessary to get TSU back on track," the governor said in a statement.

I still have a better idea -- merge the school with the well-run, academically strong University of Houston, which is a matter of blocks away. That will strengthen the school and provide it with a much more stable source of leadership and funding. Keep it as a separate entity in the UH system, at a bare minimum, but provide such a step will provide it with the sort of support the institution really needs -- and keep it from continuing to be little more than a community college with a law school and a graduate program.

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This is the best case for stopping lawsuits against watchful citizens that I've seen put forth.

Nothing can prevent a passenger who believes he has been wronged by the screening process from filing a lawsuit. What is outrageous is to hold good Samaritans liable simply for doing what any reasonable person observing suspicious activity should do. This is pure and simple intimidation.

In the interests of national security, Congress cannot allow this to happen. While the House has taken the initiative to insert protective language in a public transportation bill, that bill does not go far enough. Such protection needs to be comprehensive, extending to the public at large rather than just those using airplanes or other public transportation. (Obviously, such a law should not protect anyone whose motivation is based on personal profiling.)

The good Samaritan law in “Seinfeld” created a duty to act. In the real world, such a law would obviously fail judicial scrutiny. Not even in fighting the war on terrorism could a legal duty to report suspicious activities be imposed upon observers — although, one would hope, good citizens would feel a moral obligation to do so.

What can be legislated, however, is a good Samaritan federal law to protect anyone motivated to report concerns in good faith from suffering the consequences of civil liability for speaking up. We need to understand that it takes a collective effort to keep us safe, and we need to protect those who act with that in mind.

And let's remember what the folks targeted in the Flying Imams case believed they were seeing.

Witnesses described conduct that suggested something ominous might in fact be in the offing. The imams, the passengers reported, prayed loudly in the open terminal before boarding, sat in different seats on the plane from those assigned, positioned themselves near exits, asked for unneeded seatbelt extensions (which they then placed under their seats) and, most disturbingly, made anti-American comments.

Do we want to encourage or discourage the reporting of such unusual behavior on aircraft and in airports? While any single element of their behavior could be seen as innocent, taken together they should at least raise a red flag or two in the mind of even the most trusting, pro-Muslim passenger.

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After all, whether Alabama should display the Confederate flag is ultimately a matter for the people of Alabama, not a presidential candidate.

A civil rights leader in Alabama today accused former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani of flip-flopping and pandering on the confederate flag during his visit to the state capitol earlier in the week.

Giuliani, currently the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination, has in the past seemed to voice personal opposition to the flag, which to many African-Americans is an offensive symbol of bigotry and slavery.

But when the former New York mayor visited Montgomery, Ala., on Tuesday he said simply that the matter was a state issue.

Edward Vaughn, the president of the NAACP Alabama State Conference, who was in Montgomery that day, told ABC News that Giuliani's remarks disappointed him.

"Giuliani is posturing himself to try to get the conservative, right-wing, Southern white vote in Alabama," Vaughn said. "He used to oppose the flag, but now he's backtracked because he's running for president."

The Giuliani campaign responded that the mayor's position has consistently been that this issue should be decided by each individual state.

Personally, I have no objection to such displays -- simply as a matter of historical acknowledgment of the Civil War in the interest of accuracy. As such, I oppose efforts at historical revisionism by BOTH SIDES of the controversy.

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Do you want to incorporate your business? There are many advantages to having an LLC, many of them related to taxes and legal liability. It is therefore a good idea to at least look at the possibility of incorporating in a state where it is to your advantage using a company that is expert at establishing California corporations and those in other states.

IncParadise.com does it all -- though their major business is in Nevada. When I went to their FAQ, they seemed to be all about Nevada corporations. But since Nevada corporations seem to be the latest legal structure of preference in the business world today, one might choose to consider that option. But regardless of where you choose to incorporate, IncParadise.com seems well-situated to help you out. The site is easy to use, intuitive in its operation and the material you need is available at just a click or two -- something that is often a problem on business websites for interstate businesses. And best of all, there are loads of links that discuss why you might want to incorporate and the advantages/disadvantages of different sorts of corporate structures. For a layman like me without a lot of business experience, this site is a godsend. Who knows, maybe one of these days Rhymes With Right will be Rhymes With Right, LLC or Rhymes With Right, Inc.

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It is splits for Wills and Kate.

Prince William and his girlfriend Kate Middleton have ended their four-year relationship, dashing hopes of a royal wedding to rival that of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.

The Sun newspaper reported Saturday that the couple had reached an "amicable agreement" to separate. Sources confirmed the split to the Press Association news agency.

William's Clarence House office refused to comment, saying it did not discuss the prince's private life, but royal sources did not deny the report, tacitly acknowledging it was true.

The newspaper said the split was caused by the huge pressures on the young couple and by William's career in the army. The second in line to the throne graduated from Sandhurst military academy in December and is undergoing further training at an army base in rural England.

News of the break-up took many royal-watchers by surprise. It was widely thought the couple would soon announce their engagement; one bookmaker was so certain of a royal wedding it had stopped taking bets on it.

Prince William has a military commitment, and his former girlfriend seems not to have been willing to share him with those duties.

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